Cannot access intranet using servername

Hello,

My PC (WinXP SP2) has 2 NICs, which one is set for internet browsing using a
public IP. And another one is set to 2 IPs to connect to two workgroups in
my office, i.e 192.168.12.0 and 192.168.15.0.

192.168.12.0 is used by a group of PCs (Workgroup A). 192.168.12.1 is their
proxy server running WinNT4 and WinGate. But I don't use the proxy for
internet browsing as I already have my own public IP. However, I still need
to set my IP to 192.168.12.200, as I need to share files with Workgroup A.

192.168.15.0 is my personal workgroup (Workgroup B) consists of my PC
(192.168.15.2) and a webserver (192.168.15.1).

Problem 1:
On my pc, I cannot see the workgroup A name in My Network Places. I can only
see Workgroup B. From Workgroup A, they can see both the names of Workgroup
A & B.

Problem 2:
I can see shared folders of PCs in Workgroup A by their IP address (E.g:
\\192.168.12.121) but not by their PC name (E.g: \\norafizah). The same goes
with pinging. I can ping them using IPs but not pc names. In the other hand,
they can both see my shared folders and ping by both my IP and my PC name.

Problem 3:
I can both open and ping my webserver in Workgroup B from my PC by the IP
and server name. The workgroup B name is listed under Microsoft Windows
Network. The server can also ping and open my PC by both IP and name. The
problem is, I cannot open the website hosted on the server by the name.
(E.g: http://webserver:9999). But this only occurs intermittently. But I can
access it using IP address at all the times.


Please help me anyone. I do not want to resolve by editing the hosts file.

Thanks in advance

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This is pretty much the kind of result you can expect if you are trying to
connect a single NIC to two different network segments or you are running
different subnets on the same segment. If this is all one physical segment,
why not give all machines a 192.168.12.x address?

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP

"Razak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:O65%(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello,
>
> My PC (WinXP SP2) has 2 NICs, which one is set for internet browsing using
a
> public IP. And another one is set to 2 IPs to connect to two workgroups in
> my office, i.e 192.168.12.0 and 192.168.15.0.
>
> 192.168.12.0 is used by a group of PCs (Workgroup A). 192.168.12.1 is
their
> proxy server running WinNT4 and WinGate. But I don't use the proxy for
> internet browsing as I already have my own public IP. However, I still
need
> to set my IP to 192.168.12.200, as I need to share files with Workgroup A.
>
> 192.168.15.0 is my personal workgroup (Workgroup B) consists of my PC
> (192.168.15.2) and a webserver (192.168.15.1).
>
> Problem 1:
> On my pc, I cannot see the workgroup A name in My Network Places. I can
only
> see Workgroup B. From Workgroup A, they can see both the names of
Workgroup
> A & B.
>
> Problem 2:
> I can see shared folders of PCs in Workgroup A by their IP address (E.g:
> \\192.168.12.121) but not by their PC name (E.g: \\norafizah). The same
goes
> with pinging. I can ping them using IPs but not pc names. In the other
hand,
> they can both see my shared folders and ping by both my IP and my PC name.
>
> Problem 3:
> I can both open and ping my webserver in Workgroup B from my PC by the IP
> and server name. The workgroup B name is listed under Microsoft Windows
> Network. The server can also ping and open my PC by both IP and name. The
> problem is, I cannot open the website hosted on the server by the name.
> (E.g: http://webserver:9999). But this only occurs intermittently. But I
can
> access it using IP address at all the times.
>
>
> Please help me anyone. I do not want to resolve by editing the hosts file.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
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>

Thank you for your response.

I can't change the Workgroup B IP to 192.168.12.x becos on my PC, all Visual
Interdev 6 and VS.NET solutions connects to the server via 192.168.15.1,
instead of server name. And there's no easy way to change the solutions IP
address. Re-creating new projects for them will be tedious since every each
projects contain huge number of files.

"Doug Sherman [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> This is pretty much the kind of result you can expect if you are trying to
> connect a single NIC to two different network segments or you are running
> different subnets on the same segment. If this is all one physical
> segment,
> why not give all machines a 192.168.12.x address?
>
> Doug Sherman
> MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>
> "Razak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:O65%(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello,
>>
>> My PC (WinXP SP2) has 2 NICs, which one is set for internet browsing
>> using
> a
>> public IP. And another one is set to 2 IPs to connect to two workgroups
>> in
>> my office, i.e 192.168.12.0 and 192.168.15.0.
>>
>> 192.168.12.0 is used by a group of PCs (Workgroup A). 192.168.12.1 is
> their
>> proxy server running WinNT4 and WinGate. But I don't use the proxy for
>> internet browsing as I already have my own public IP. However, I still
> need
>> to set my IP to 192.168.12.200, as I need to share files with Workgroup
>> A.
>>
>> 192.168.15.0 is my personal workgroup (Workgroup B) consists of my PC
>> (192.168.15.2) and a webserver (192.168.15.1).
>>
>> Problem 1:
>> On my pc, I cannot see the workgroup A name in My Network Places. I can
> only
>> see Workgroup B. From Workgroup A, they can see both the names of
> Workgroup
>> A & B.
>>
>> Problem 2:
>> I can see shared folders of PCs in Workgroup A by their IP address (E.g:
>> \\192.168.12.121) but not by their PC name (E.g: \\norafizah). The same
> goes
>> with pinging. I can ping them using IPs but not pc names. In the other
> hand,
>> they can both see my shared folders and ping by both my IP and my PC
>> name.
>>
>> Problem 3:
>> I can both open and ping my webserver in Workgroup B from my PC by the IP
>> and server name. The workgroup B name is listed under Microsoft Windows
>> Network. The server can also ping and open my PC by both IP and name. The
>> problem is, I cannot open the website hosted on the server by the name.
>> (E.g: http://webserver:9999). But this only occurs intermittently. But I
> can
>> access it using IP address at all the times.
>>
>>
>> Please help me anyone. I do not want to resolve by editing the hosts
>> file.
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -------
>>
>
>

If they must be in different IP subnets, you are out of luck. You can
only browse across routers if you have a domain controller. A domain
controller has the ability to merge browse lists (including workgroups). If
you have no domain controllers, you can only browse to machines which are on
the same segment, because the browse list is built by broadcasts.

Razak wrote:
> Thank you for your response.
>
> I can't change the Workgroup B IP to 192.168.12.x becos on my PC, all
> Visual Interdev 6 and VS.NET solutions connects to the server via
> 192.168.15.1, instead of server name. And there's no easy way to
> change the solutions IP address. Re-creating new projects for them
> will be tedious since every each projects contain huge number of
> files.
> "Doug Sherman [MVP]" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed)...
>> This is pretty much the kind of result you can expect if you are
>> trying to connect a single NIC to two different network segments or
>> you are running different subnets on the same segment. If this is
>> all one physical segment,
>> why not give all machines a 192.168.12.x address?
>>
>> Doug Sherman
>> MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
>>
>> "Razak" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:O65%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> My PC (WinXP SP2) has 2 NICs, which one is set for internet browsing
>>> using
>> a
>>> public IP. And another one is set to 2 IPs to connect to two
>>> workgroups in
>>> my office, i.e 192.168.12.0 and 192.168.15.0.
>>>
>>> 192.168.12.0 is used by a group of PCs (Workgroup A). 192.168.12.1
>>> is their proxy server running WinNT4 and WinGate. But I don't use
>>> the proxy for internet browsing as I already have my own public IP.
>>> However, I still need to set my IP to 192.168.12.200, as I need to
>>> share files with Workgroup A.
>>>
>>> 192.168.15.0 is my personal workgroup (Workgroup B) consists of my
>>> PC (192.168.15.2) and a webserver (192.168.15.1).
>>>
>>> Problem 1:
>>> On my pc, I cannot see the workgroup A name in My Network Places. I
>>> can only see Workgroup B. From Workgroup A, they can see both the
>>> names of Workgroup A & B.
>>>
>>> Problem 2:
>>> I can see shared folders of PCs in Workgroup A by their IP address
>>> (E.g: \\192.168.12.121) but not by their PC name (E.g:
>>> \\norafizah). The same goes with pinging. I can ping them using IPs
>>> but not pc names. In the other hand, they can both see my shared
>>> folders and ping by both my IP and my PC name.
>>>
>>> Problem 3:
>>> I can both open and ping my webserver in Workgroup B from my PC by
>>> the IP and server name. The workgroup B name is listed under
>>> Microsoft Windows Network. The server can also ping and open my PC
>>> by both IP and name. The problem is, I cannot open the website
>>> hosted on the server by the name. (E.g: http://webserver:9999). But
>>> this only occurs intermittently. But I can access it using IP
>>> address at all the times. Please help me anyone. I do not want to
>>> resolve by editing the hosts
>>> file.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
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>>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> -------